Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Surely a IIFX blows an Amiga 3000 away, right? Message-ID: <1990Oct21.033559.31136@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 21 Oct 90 03:35:59 GMT References: <5046@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 41 In article Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr (Patrick Hayes) writes: >In article <5046@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes: >> A GVP or >>Supra equipped A2x00 would leave the ][fx in the dust, as would a ][, ][cx, or >>][x with a Daystar Digital accelerator. >Which is outside the scope of the original posting, for one thing, and has >little meaning especially between machines which do not run the same software. >Comparing benchmarks means little, it's Application speed that counts. >Benchmarks using typical applications and workloads have shown the fx to be a >much better balanced machine than an accellerated IIx, and the improvements >elsewhere than in the CPU clock speed give the fx a better rating in all the >evaluations I've seen so far. It isn't really irrelevant as it has its comparisons on the Amiga as well. An accelerated A2000 would be slower than an equivalently accelerated A3000 simply because the architecture is not as modern. The A3000 is equipped with a full 25MHz 32 bit bus so it has all the same power in terms of architecture as the IIfx. It has special chips to control DMA transfers, making it fast. Another thing to consider is that the 68040 will change the way we think about accelerators! The A3000 has an advantage over the IIfx there because the A3000 is 25MHz, same as the 040, and the CPU direct slot has 200 pins which will make it more than easy to build a 68040 board. Cheap, in other words. The other advantage over the Mac that the Amiga has in that area is that we don't have Apple pricing the board! 8) Just so people know, although I very much like my Amiga, the Mac has the better software in most fields except some multimedia and games, and maybe one or two other exceptions. I also think the new low-prices will help, although Apple may not be expecting the lower profit margins they'll find. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu GorbachevAwards++; free (SovietUnion); IndependentRepublics += 15;